For you short attention-span Gaming Abstract junkies out there, Christmas came a little early this year. I’ve completed and posted a convenient 1-pdf breakdown of the 2007 Nevada gaming win. If you don’t want to click through, here are some high points:
Total money gambled:
Slots: $138.7 billion
Tables: $32.3 billion
Total: $171 billionCasino win:
Total slot win: $8.5 billion
Total table win: $4.2 billion
Total gaming win: $12.8
(They don’t add up because of rounding)
The collective house only kept about 7.5 cents of each dollar gambled.
There were fewer gaming positions in 2007 than 2006, but handle (amount wagered) was up by $1 billion and revenues were up by abut $200 million. So people gambled more on fewer machines. Let’s call it an increase in gaming efficiency.
I know that the GCB released the numbers last week, but I’m doing much better this year than last: I didn’t get the 2006 totals posted until June last year. The funny thing is that I started getting calls and emails in the first week of January wondering when the new breakdown would be posted.
My hat’s off to the numbers-crunchers over at the GCB. They’ve got to work with data coming in from hundreds of locations, not all of which place as high a priority on the revenue reports as we do.